xix, 290 pages : 25 cm

"Based on the best modern historical research on the Timucua and other Florida indigenous groups, work relates their decline and extinction"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Searching for the Past -- The Native Presence -- The European Presence -- Interpreting the Past -- Chapter 2 -- An Old World and Its People -- Paleoindians -- The First Floridians -- Archaic-Period Cultures -- Post-500 B.C. Regional Cultures -- Part I -- Indigenous People -- Chapter 3 -- Native People in Southern Florida -- Calusa of the Southwest Coast -- Tequesta of the Miami Area -- Jeaga, Hobe, and Santaluces of the Southeast Coast -- Matecumbe and Native Groups of the Florida Keys -- Chapter 4 -- Native People in Central Florida -- Ais of the Central East Coast -- Jororo of South-Central Florida -- Mayaca of the Central St. Johns River -- Tocobaga and the Central Gulf Coast Groups -- Chapter 5 -- Native People in Northern Florida -- Timucua Speakers -- Eastern Timucuan Groups -- Western Timucuan Groups -- Apalachee Indians of the Eastern Panhandle -- Other Groups of the Panhandle -- Part II -- The Invasion -- Chapter 6 -- The Invasion Begins -- Early Voyages to La Florida -- Ayllón's Attempt to Colonize La Florida -- The Narváez Entrada -- Chapter 7 -- Tide Unchecked -- The Army of Hernando de Soto -- More Failed Attempts -- Luna and Villafañe -- Chapter 8 -- Colonization and First Settlement -- The French and the Florida Indians -- Menéndez and the Colonization of Florida -- Part III -- The Aftermath -- Chapter 9 -- The Franciscan Frontier -- History of the Missions -- The Aftermath of the 1656 Timcucuan Rebellion -- Chapter 10 -- New Lives for Old: Life in the Mission Provinces -- A New Way of Living -- A New Way of Being -- Chapter 11 -- The End of Time -- Epidemics and Repopulation: A Timucuan Puzzle -- Apalachee Demography -- Raids of 1680 to 1707 -- The Final Assault -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index

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